“They left me a voicemail, [general manager] John [Dorsey] did,” Maclin said. “I was en route to go down to Fletcher Cox’s football camp in Mississippi. I was on a flight, so clearly [Dorsey] couldn’t get to me. He left me a voicemail, but the issue is they released me so late on Friday [that] I wouldn’t become a free agent until Monday anyways.

“So I would think they’d have the respect for me enough to at least have a conversation with me. Not really find out through a voicemail. I think that’s where, in my opinion, the problem [is].”

Maclin talked about how Dorsey said he had been trying to trade Maclin for two or three months prior to his release.

Maclin also addressed concerns about him “losing a step” after a down season that saw him bring in a career-low 536 yards receiving. Maclin only missed four games last season, but he also played through a major injury when he returned.

“I tore my groin last year,” Maclin said. “If I’m supposed to be just as fast with a torn groin then, I mean, more power to them. I guess they have to wait and see. I don’t really have anything else to say about that. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I’ll still be able to get open, I’ll still be able to make big plays, that’s for sure.

“I missed about four weeks there with a torn groin. I came back and I was able to play but I can’t sit up here and tell you I was 100 percent. But I’m also not going to sit up here and make excuses. At the end of the day I didn’t play as well as I could have last year and that’s ultimately what happened.”